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The Michigan gubernatorial election of 2006 was one of the 36 U.S. gubernatorial elections held November 7, 2006. Incumbent Democratic Governor of Michigan Jennifer Granholm was re-elected over Republican businessman Dick DeVos and three minor party candidates. Granholm was re-elected with 56% of the vote. [1]
The Governor of Michigan is the chief executive of the U.S. state of Michigan. The current governor is Gretchen Whitmer, a member of the Democratic Party, who was inaugurated on January 1, 2019, as the state's 49th governor. She is eligible for a second term under Michigan's term limits, which limit a governor to only two, four-year terms.
Jennifer Mulhern Granholm is a Canadian-American politician, lawyer, educator, author, political commentator and member of the Democratic Party who served as the Attorney General of Michigan from 1999 to 2003 and as the 47th Governor of Michigan from 2003 to 2011. In January 2017, she became a CNN political contributor.
Richard Marvin DeVos Jr. is an American entrepreneur, businessman and author. The son of Amway co-founder Richard DeVos, he served as CEO of the multi-level marketing company from 1993 to 2002. In 2006, DeVos ran for Governor of Michigan, but lost to the then-incumbent Democrat Jennifer Granholm. In 2012, Forbes magazine listed his father as the #351 richest person in the world, with a net worth of approximately $5.4 billion.
Granholm had no opposition in the primary election, which was held August 8. She retained incumbent Lieutenant Governor John D. Cherry as her running mate.
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John D. Cherry is a retired American politician who served as the 62nd Lieutenant Governor of Michigan from 2003 to 2011. A Democrat, Cherry also served as a gubernatorial appointee to the Midwestern Higher Education Compact, and was the immediate past chair of the international Great Lakes Commission.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jennifer Granholm (Incumbent) | 600,228 | 100.00 | |
Total votes | 600,228 | 100.00 |
DeVos was originally facing two other Republicans; state Representative Jack Hoogendyk of Portage and state Senator Nancy Cassis of Novi, both dropped out by summer 2005. A political unknown, Louis Boven, tried to challenge him in the primary, but failed to meet Michigan election requirements to get on the ballot. Boven later ran an unsuccessful write-in campaign.[ citation needed ]
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Nancy Cassis is an American teacher and psychologist. As a Michigan Senator who initially ran against Dick DeVos, she dropped out of the contest before Michigan's 2006 gubernatorial Republican primary. In the Michigan Senate she served as the Majority Caucus Chairperson and introduced the Michigan Business Tax, which was eventually repealed by conservative governor Rick Snyder.
DeVos selected former State Representative and Oakland County Clerk Ruth Johnson as his running mate on August 14. [3]
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Ruth Johnson is the former Secretary of State of Michigan and current member for State Senate District 14. She is a former member of the Michigan House of Representatives and the 2006 Republican candidate for lieutenant governor as the running mate of Dick DeVos.
The Libertarian Party of Michigan held their convention on May 16 at the Comfort Inn in Chelsea [4] [5] The party nominated Gregory Creswell, with Scotty Boman as his running mate. [6]
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The Green Party of Michigan had their convention at the Wolverine Dilworth Inn in Boyne City, Michigan. [7] The Green Party's nominee was Douglas Campbell. His running mate was David Skrbina, a philosophy professor at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. Campbell, a registered professional engineer from Ferndale, joined the Green party upon learning of its existence in 2000, [8] and was the Wayne-Oakland-Macomb county campaign coordinator for Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader, 2000. [9]
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The University of Michigan–Dearborn is a public university located in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It is one of the two regional campuses of the University of Michigan operating under the policies of the Board of Regents. The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor is located 35 miles to the west; the other regional campus is in Flint which is located 70 miles to the north.
The Constitution Party's candidate was Bhagwan Dashairya, a member of the US Taxpayers' Party. The Michigan US Taxpayers' Party is affiliated with the United States Constitution Party, [10] but Michigan election law does not provide a mechanism for changing the name of a political party. [11] [12] Dashairya was the first Asian Indian to run for Governor of Michigan.[ citation needed ] Dashairya's running mate was Carl Oehling. [13]
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After her first election as governor in 2002, Granholm was widely seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party. Her popularity dropped after she took office in 2003, largely due to a weak economy and high unemployment. In August 2006, her approval rating was 47 percent. [14]
DeVos, a multimillionaire, had developed substantial political contacts with the full participation of his wife, former Michigan Republican Party chair Betsy DeVos, despite which, fully 85% of the DeVos campaign's contributions were from DeVos' inheritance. [15] As the 2006 election approached, the DeVos family was listed among the biggest Republican campaign contributors in Michigan. [16] The DeVos campaign spent $42.5 million, at that time the most spent on a gubernatorial campaign in Michigan history. $35.5 million of that total came from DeVos' personal fortune, and was at that time the most spent personally by a Republican candidate running for governor. The Granholm campaign spent $15.7 million. The combined money spent by both campaigns made this election the most expensive gubernatorial election in Michigan history. As DeVos funded his campaign himself, he was not eligible for public funds. [17]
The DeVos and Campbell campaigns each made the state's economy their major issue. DeVos criticzed the Single Business Tax, high unemployment, and job outsourcing which occurred during Granholm's first term; Campbell assailed the $12 billion taken from Michigan's taxpayers and appropriated to the military siege of Iraq (which he calls "Duh-bya's Folly") and advocated for a local currency, independent of the U.S. dollar which he and running mate David Skrbina say is in imminent jeopardy of collapse. Granholm countered that her policies saved thousands of jobs. She also attacked DeVos's partisanship, wealth, and tenure at Alticor. One of Granholm's most prominent lines of attack was the accusation that Alticor, under DeVos's tenure, outsourced thousands of jobs to China while cutting 1,400 jobs in Michigan, a charge that the DeVos campaign and numerous media factcheckers denied. DeVos, Campbell and Granholm criticzed the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative which was exclusively supported by Creswell. [18] [19] and passed by a wide margin. [20]
On August 25, 2006, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pledged to actively campaign for Granholm and utilize the campaign team which got him re-elected as mayor. [21] The Michigan Democratic Party held their state convention in city of Detroit at Cobo Hall while the Michigan Republican Party held their convention in the City of Novi in Oakland County at the new Rock Financial Showplace.
In October 2006, the Creswell campaign spent over $10,000 on radio advertising, which while small, was the most spent on a such advertising by any Michigan gubernatorial campaign outside the Democratic or Republican parties. [22] [23] The largest investment was made in advertisements on Detroit AM Radio stations WJR and WXYT. [24] These commercials specifically targeted Devos and Granholm by referring to them as candidates of "The two old parties," and berating them for supporting state-supported preferences based on race and sex: A clear reference to MCRI. [25] Campbell spent less than $1,000, [26] as was the case with the Dashairya campaign. [27]
The DeVos and Granholm campaigns agreed to three televised debates and a single joint appearance. This agreement did not include any provision for participation by third-party candidates. [28] Granholm and DeVos appeared together October 12 at the Detroit Economic Club in which each candidate delivered their job plans. [29]
The first debate occurred on October 2 at WKAR-TV in East Lansing. [30] Both candidates spent the hour trading charges and countercharges. Detroit News pollster Ed Sarpolus indicated that there was no clear winner in the debate, but Bill Rustem, senior vice president of the nonpartisan policy firm Public Sector Consultants in Lansing, favored Granholm. [31] The consensus of pundits Bill Ballenger, George Bullard, Kathy Barks Hoffman and Rick Albin and capital correspondent Tim Skubick, speaking on the October 6 WKAR-television program Off the Record, [32] was that both DeVos and Granholm emerged losers, losing 2 and 4 percentage points' support after the event. No major gaffes or zingers came out in the debate. Some of the positions were made clear on embryonic stem cell research [33] and abortion. [34] No major gaffes came out in the debate, but one minor zinger was made by Granholm about DeVos' investment in Alterra, a chain of nursing homes which sexually abused and neglected its patients. [35] [36]
The second was October 10 at WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids. DeVos was more aggressive than before, declaring that Granholm had lied about him having a controlling stake in Alterra Health Care, an elder-care company that suppressed information about the abuse of residents by its employees. [37] According to SEC filings, DeVos and his investment partners jointly owned 40% of Alterra stock totalling $173 million. [38] The chairman of Alterra's board, while a close associate of DeVos, nevertheless maintains that DeVos had no part of running the company himself. [39]
DeVos also asserted that he had convinced President Bush to set a date to meet with the three major Michigan auto companies. Granholm responded that she didn't believe that was true. DeVos admitted after the debate that he misspoke; the President agreed to have a meeting at some point after the election, but did not confirm a date. [40] On October 24, two weeks after this debate was held, a mid-November date was set for the meeting. [41]
The third televised debate was October 16 at WXYZ-TV in Southfield. Unlike the previous debates, this one had an invited studio audience of 30 undecided voters, some of whom asked questions to the participating candidates. Like the two previous debates, only two of the five candidates were admitted. [42] [43] Granholm and DeVos sparred on various issues including college tuition, Canadian trash, business taxes, President Bush and negative ads, [44] while Creswell supporters picketed outside. [45] [46] [47] [48]
During the opening statements of the third debate, Gov. Granholm attacked DeVos for using pictures of dead children as a campaign tool against her. However, it was later revealed that DeVos was not the person using the pictures, but supporters of him, who were cheering for him outside of the debate studio.
On October 18 CMN-TV in Troy broadcast an additional debate.[ citation needed ] This debate was not covered by the agreement between the DeVos and Granholm campaigns. [28] It was the only televised debate to which all gubernatorial candidates were invited. It also was only the only televised debate in which the majority of gubernatorial candidates participated. This debate included Libertarian Gregory Creswell, Green Douglas Campbell, and U.S. Taxpayer Candidate Bhagwan Dashairya (Dashairya identified himself as a Constitution Party (listed on ballot as U.S. Taxpayers Party) candidate). [49] [50] [51]
DeVos, buoyed by the political ads he ran, led in the polls for most of the late spring and early summer. DeVos' lead eroded when Granholm started running ads; meanwhile, Granholm built up a lead as voters found out more about the candidates culminating in the three debates, and as political fortunes soured for Republicans across the country due to a massive backlash against then president George W. Bush and fatigue over the continuing War in Iraq. [52]
Source | Date | Granholm (D) | DeVos (R) | Creswell (L) | Campbell (G) | Dashairya (T) |
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EPIC-MRA | Nov 6, 2006 | 49% | 42% | |||
Strategic Vision | Nov 6, 2006 | 52% | 42% | |||
Mason-Dixon | Nov 5, 2006 | 52% | 38% | 0–2% | 0–2% | 0–2% |
Survey USA | Nov 5, 2006 | 51% | 45% | 2% | 1% | 1% |
Free Press-Local 4 Michigan Poll | Nov 5, 2006 | 54% | 41% | |||
EPIC-MRA | Nov 3, 2006 | 49% | 42% | |||
EPIC-MRA | Nov 2, 2006 | 52% | 43% | |||
Strategic Vision | Nov 2, 2006 | 50% | 42% | |||
EPIC-MRA | Oct 31, 2006 | 52% | 42% | |||
Zogby/WSJ | Oct 31, 2006 | 51.6% | 42.7% | 0–5.7% | 0–5.7% | 0–5.7% |
EPIC-MRA | Oct 27, 2006 | 48% | 43% | 1% | 1% | |
Research 2000 | Oct 25, 2006 | 50% | 40% | |||
Survey USA | Oct 25, 2006 | 52% | 45% | 1% | 1% | |
Rasmussen | Oct 25, 2006 | 53% | 42% | |||
Strategic Vision | Oct 24, 2006 | 47% | 43% | |||
Zogby/WSJ | Oct 19, 2006 | 50.6% | 44.1% | |||
Free Press-Local 4 Michigan Poll | Oct 15, 2006 | 49% | 41% | |||
EPIC-MRA (raw data) | Oct 13, 2006 | 51% | 42% | 2% | ||
Survey USA | Oct 9, 2006 | 50% | 45% | 1% | 1% | 1% |
Rasmussen | Oct 8, 2006 | 49% | 42% | |||
EPIC-MRA | Oct 5, 2006 | 46% | 40% | 1% | 1% | |
Zogby/WSJ | Sept 28, 2006 | 49.9% | 40.8% | |||
Strategic Vision | Sept 20, 2006 | 47% | 46% | |||
Survey USA | Sept 18, 2006 | 47% | 47% | 1% | 2% | 1% |
EPIC-MRA | September 14, 2006 | 50% | 42% | |||
Zogby/WSJ | September 11, 2006 | 49.4% | 44.0% | |||
Rasmussen | September 7, 2006 | 46% | 48% | |||
Free Press-Local 4 Michigan Poll | September 3, 2006 | 46% | 44% | |||
Strategic Vision | August 29, 2006 | 48% | 43% | |||
Zogby/WSJ | August 28, 2006 | 50.8% | 43.6% | |||
EPIC-MRA | August 23, 2006 | 49% | 42% | 3% | ||
Survey USA | August 22, 2006 | 47% | 47% | |||
Rasmussen | August 16, 2006 | 47% | 46% | |||
EPIC-MRA | August 16, 2006 | 50% | 47% | |||
Survey USA | August 8, 2006 | 42% | 50% | 6% | ||
Rasmussen | August 1, 2006 | 42% | 48% | |||
Strategic Vision | July 27, 2006 | 44% | 48% | |||
EPIC-MRA | July 26, 2006 | 47% | 44% | |||
Zogby/WSJ | July 24, 2006 | 50.5% | 44.4% | |||
Free Press-Local 4 Michigan Poll | July 15, 2006 | 42% | 47% | |||
Zogby/WSJ | June 21, 2006 | 48.1% | 46.2% | |||
EPIC-MRA | June 21, 2006 | 44% | 46% | |||
Strategic Vision | June 21, 2006 | 41% | 48% | |||
Rasmussen | June 14, 2006 | 44% | 42% | |||
EPIC-MRA | June 12, 2006 | 40% | 48% | |||
Strategic Vision | May 24, 2006 | 42% | 45% | |||
EPIC-MRA | May 11, 2006 | 45% | 46% | |||
MRG of Lansing | May 1–9, 2006 | 43% | 44% | |||
Rasmussen | May 5, 2006 | 44% | 43% | |||
Strategic Vision | April 21, 2006 | 43% | 42% | |||
EPIC-MRA | April 11, 2006 | 43% | 43% | |||
Rasmussen | March 27, 2006 | 44% | 44% | |||
MRG of Lansing | March 22, 2006 | 43% | 41% | |||
Strategic Vision | March 15, 2006 | 50% | 33% | |||
EPIC-MRA | March 9, 2006 | 51% | 41% | |||
Rasmussen | Feb 14, 2006 | 44% | 43% | |||
EPIC-MRA | Feb 12, 2006 | 53% | 36% | |||
Strategic Vision | Feb 3, 2006 | 48% | 34% | |||
Rasmussen | Jan 20, 2006 | 49% | 38% | |||
Strategic Vision | Dec 22, 2005 | 46% | 35% | |||
Rasmussen | Dec 2, 2005 | 48% | 36% | |||
EPIC-MRA | Nov 29, 2005 | 58% | 35% | |||
Strategic Vision | Nov 21, 2005 | 44% | 33% | |||
EPIC-MRA | Oct 25, 2005 | 53% | 30% | |||
Strategic Vision | Oct 25, 2005 | 46% | 35% | |||
Strategic Vision | Sept 29, 2005 | 47% | 33% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Democratic | Jennifer Granholm/John D. Cherry (Incumbent) | 2,142,513 | 56.36% | +4.95% | |
Republican | Dick DeVos/Ruth Johnson | 1,608,086 | 42.30% | -5.09% | |
Libertarian | Greg Creswell | 23,524 | 0.62% | ||
Green | Douglas Campbell | 20,009 | 0.53% | -0.27% | |
Constitution | Bhagwan Dashairya | 7,087 | 0.19% | -0.20% | |
Write-ins | 37 | 0.00% | 0.00% | ||
Majority | 534,427 | 14.06% | +10.04% | ||
Turnout | 3,801,256 | ||||
Democratic hold | Swing |
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